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Melvin Van Peebles who started a cinematic revolution with Sweet Sweetback dies at 89 Portrait of American film actor and director Melvin Van Peebles New York 1986. He directed Watermelon Man did everything on Sweet Sweetbacks Baadasssss Song and wrote a pair of Broadway musicals.

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Melvin Van Peebles the influential indie filmmaker who helped spawn the Blaxploitation genre with his 1971 film Sweet Sweetbacks Baadassss Song has died at the age of 89. Dad knew that Black images matter Mario Van Peebles said in a statement from the Criterion Collection. Melvin Van Peebles at the Deauville American film festival 2012 in Deauville France.

Melvin Van Peebles the influential filmmaker behind Sweet Sweetbacks Baadassss Song and father of director and actor Mario Van Peebles has died. Melvin Van Peebles icon of Black cinema behind Sweet Sweetbacks Baadasssss Song dies at 89. We take a look at his children and family in this article.

Melvin Van Peebles the actor writer and director who was dubbed as the Godfather of Black cinema by many is dead at 89. If a picture is worth a thousand words what was a movie worth. Filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles speaks about his film Sweet Sweetbacks Baadasssss Song in this sixth of ten excerpts from the NVLP Oral History Archive.

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